What's the difference between dragon and troll?

Dragon


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
  • (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
  • (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
  • (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
  • (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
  • (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
  • (n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
  • (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (2) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
  • (4) And it will almost certainly continue arriving in dribs and drabs, based on the Sea Dragon's observations.
  • (5) It means that if I get a little bored with Daenerys refusing to bring her dragons and her army over to the main continent, I just need to wait a few minutes until Bran's adventures take over.
  • (6) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
  • (7) Fifa 15 is on the way; Dragon Age Inquisition and Hardline too.
  • (8) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
  • (9) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a much longer process.
  • (10) YouTube is full of inventive fan videos and you can purchase anything from handcrafted dragons' eggs to a replica Iron Throne .
  • (11) • Elon Musk unveils Dragon V2 spacecraft for seven astronauts
  • (12) Drugs policy is the last legislative wilderness where "here be dragons", a hangover from days when abortion and homosexuality were illegal and divorce expensive.
  • (13) Less than 10 minutes later, the rocket and its cargo – a Dragon capsule with 544 kg of supplies for the station crew – reached orbit.
  • (14) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
  • (15) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
  • (16) The Dragon, added Mortimer, was a 'terrific school' where he learnt more than he ever did afterwards.
  • (17) And now there is a national development plan to slay the three-headed dragon of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
  • (18) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
  • (19) Previously criticised for their “exclusionary” developments that ignore “the real Woodstock”, the Dragons ignored my repeated attempts to seek their views on the suburb’s gentrification and their role in it.
  • (20) This survey of China's ethereal paintings is fleshed out by The Chinese Art Book, published by Phaidon on 14 October, a gorgeously laid out overview in which classics like Chen Rong's Nine Dragons, painted in 1244, - the original is in the V&A show - are juxtaposed with contemporary artists from heroic Ai Weiwei to the fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang.

Troll


Definition:

  • (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
  • (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
  • (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  • (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
  • (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  • (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
  • (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
  • (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag.
  • (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.
  • (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
  • (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
  • (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
  • (n.) A trolley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
  • (3) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
  • (4) Asked by a troll how long he planned to “live off” his Olympic success, and if he would ever do anything of consequence again, Rutherford suggested he might become a porn star or dabble in pottery instead.
  • (5) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
  • (6) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Oliver on Donald Trump: ‘A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll’ Hang on a minute: who am I as a Briton to interfere in the internal affairs of a foreign country?
  • (8) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
  • (9) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
  • (10) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
  • (11) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (12) The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi hate site whose founder organizes harassing “troll storms” of abuse towards political opponents, surpassed the traffic ratings of Stormfront, a more traditional racist site, last July, according to the center’s analysis, becoming the most popular English-language far-right site.
  • (13) This is the dead centre of troll territory; what they're looking for is that sharp intake of breath; the collective, "How can you say that?"
  • (14) You should eat less cake’.” In response, Rushmore posted another picture with a defiant message for the troll.
  • (15) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
  • (16) Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee carrying out a parallel inquiry, has said that at least 1,000 “paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia” were pumping anti-Clinton fake news into social media sites during the campaign.
  • (17) The most widely accepted definition of a troll is a provocateur – someone who says outrageous, extreme or abusive things to elicit a reaction.
  • (18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
  • (19) She admitted getting dates wrong, – giving both trials and the police three separate dates for the visits – but insisted the event, as Trolle later testified, was true.
  • (20) A variety of different forms of online abuse are highlighted on the site, from trolling (deliberately posting “offensive, upsetting or inflammatory comments online in an attempt to hurt and provoke a response”) to doxxing (publishing personal information about someone, including sex videos and photos, also known as revenge porn) and cyberstalking (“a pattern of online behaviour that is the long-term, intrusive and persistent pursuit of one person by another, making the victim feel frightened and distressed”).